Doing a PhD. One more year and then I’m free again…
You’ll make it. I, too, fell for it.
At least you learned how to make a killer Latte.
Gold coins. I bought at the all-time high.
The all-time high so far
Isn’t the all-time high now?
I thought touch screens would be a fad. I dont fall for hype but thats because Im an idiot, not because Im smart.
Soon as the Gorilla Arms problems start popping up we’ll see the leopards.
Pretty much anything Elon Musk. I used to be an Elon Musk fangirl up until 2018, then each successive year was like the cutscene of Crash Bandicoot having all the boxes he’s missed falling on his head.
I’m definitely one of those leoy but it took me until a couple years ago to start disliking him since I was a lot less active on social media and keeping up somewhat on news other than what I’m interested in. Definitely wanted one of his boring company flamethrowers when I heard about them but now I’d ironically wanna torch one of them.
With 2018 you are waaaaaaay ahead of the most other people.
2018 was when he called the diver a pedo? That was the moment for me. I thought he was an awkward nerd trying to make electric cars a thing against all odds, an underdog. That was the moment I looked more into him and saw how wrong I was.
You probably (already) love thunderf00t videos. If not, look him up.
I prefer Common Sense Skeptic, really good Musk related videos
His Elon Musk videos, and debunking other tech bro bullshit, absolutely, but I stopped watching him as the channel became too clickbaity/sensational for me to take seriously. I still agree with many of the opinions, but the format is not for me anymore.
Word for word, same. That shit was so fucking left-field, stupid, toxic, and offensive that it broke the camel’s back, hard
I enrolled in Aerospace Engineering in 2018 because of Musk.
Part of why I never graduated was the gradual loss of faith in the person who had inspired me. Although he has actually never changed.
I remember on Reddit one awful “This is Musk. He didn’t like ___, so he invented ___” picture with like 4 examples of things he stole and a stick figure with his head. “Be like Musk” was the bottom text. I agreed with it at first, then I saw it like 6 more times.
Being annoyed at those constant repost made me leave his fan club pretty quick. Oh how naive I was, thinking the worst thing he could be was annoying.
Clearly Canadian. It came back from the dead and pre-ordered ordered 2 cases while they were getting set up. Never showed up and their support staff kept putting me off.
I would absolutely buy orbitz if they remade them even though they were mostly garbo.
GTAV, sure the online portion was fun for a while, but it quickly devolved into a money sink.
At my lowest I bought shark cards for thousands of SEK every month, and it got clear that the devs had built the game to require an insane ammount of effort to gather enough money to enjoy it properly.
I quit cold turkey and am still ashamed that it is my most played game in steam
Music. Way too many albums are that one decent song you hear on the radio and 38 minutes of filler shite, and you could never take it back to the shop to get a refund for being full of shite. So all my music is pirated first, purchased second, and anyone that objects to this is basically admitting that their industry is based on selling shite that can’t be refunded.
Have you thought about having better taste and listen to bands other than one-hit wonders ?
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album sales can’t be refunded? I bought one physical CD, and one full album for download. Never wanted to refund either purchase, never found out that it’s not possible. But really? It’s not possible to get a refund from buying a physical album?
It’s to prevent people from buying the CD, ripping it (or taping it back in the day), and returning the CD with a free copy of the music.
I bought the finger eleven CD. So, can confirm. I also bought Cult Ceremony, thinking it would be anything like Sonic Temple. This just means I don’t learn.
the thin plucked eyebrows (2000s)… I’m now trans masc and wish i had them back lol
Not that it was particularly hyped but I bought PS4 back in the day and just never really used it. My SO has uses it to watch netflix occasionally but that’s pretty much it. The most useless purchase I’ve ever made.
It had some great exclusives when they were still exclusive. God of War, Spider-Man, Persona 5, Horizon, etc… Nowadays all of those are on other systems. But originally, you had to play them on PS4. The console had a wonderful library at the time, even if that has been eroded over time by the former exclusives landing on other platforms.
Apple Vision Pro. It’s an amazing technical achievement. But they should be pushing out tons of immersive content to keep it interesting. It’s otherwise a great tech demo that isn’t ready for prime time. This might be different if I traveled a lot, but I stay home mostly and just use my Mac.
VR in general, there is no killer app, no thing that makes VR worth the cost. The peak of VR is probably Beat Saber. I have a quest 3 and I just use it to watch TV in bed without disturbing my wife. It’s nice having a giant video display but not useful for most people.
VR had such a bright future around 2014; between VRChat, tech demos of VR browsers, big players like MS and Sony getting into VR, and generic hacks to port old games to VR, it seemed obvious that companies were going to start re-releasing old games in VR (since you couldn’t run modern AAA games) and most every app would support VR and multiple users to make better use of the network effect.
Except instead 99% of games released for VR were just underwhelming tech demos and the only people who pursued creating a metaverse were short-sighted, rent-seeking, cryptobro parasites.
Simracing with VR is quite nice, tho. You’ll never get that level of immersion with screens
There are great VR games on PC. Problem is Meta flooded the market with their standalone headsets that can only play very simple small games, and shifted the perception that that’s what VR is.
You can use a quest with steam VR, it’s not as jailed as people think but without linking to a PC it is pretty content poor. There are good games for VR but nothing that really screams “This is worth the extra $300+ to get a headset to play it”. At least not to me, someone who had a Vive and currently has a quest 3.
Absolutely you can use it with a PC, what I’m saying is that most people don’t, and also because of that companies release Quest exclusive games that are bad. Just recently Civilisation VII was announced for VR. What an amazing game it could be, but just look yourself: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/sid-meiers-civilization-vii-vr/5781689118524197/ Even in the official store images, it looks atrocious and nowhere near what the flat version looks like (and how it could look on PC). And then people will see that and think this is what VR has to offer.
I got an Index in 2019 and I’m using it to this day, definitely got my money’s worth of gaming in that time.
The killer VR app for me is golf games. GOLF+ and Walkabout Minigolf. It’s a great way for me to keep in touch with my parents who live in a different city. It’s like a better version of a phone/video call every once in a while (and at $350 with the better headstrap, it’s not too expensive for a present)
Ironically this is where the Quest absolutely destroys the Vision Pro, which doesn’t have any VR golf (or even minigolf) games as far as I can tell.
VR headsets are basically multiplayer golf simulators to me. Which makes the Vision Pro a golf simulator that doesn’t have golf.
When I was a young idiot, I really thought Clonaid was gonna be a thing. I guess I thought it was plausible because I grew up reading a fuckton of scifi and Dolly the Sheep had been born a couple years prior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m flopping what someone else said and goin with: buying a home in 2008. “Build equity! Stop renting”
Then the economy collapsed, I lost my job, moved to California for work after listing my house, could not afford Bay Area rent AND my mortgage, and the house got foreclosed on.
Fuck Chase fuck banks fuck the economy.
We lost our house. Bank bailouts vs. consumer bailouts even though the financial institutes acted in criminal levels of BS was a big wake up.
It’s very, very clear that the 99% are nothing but dog shit on the bottom of the 1% shoes.
It gets even worse for me.
Since I knew I couldn’t afford it, I tried to setup a short sale when I found someone who was interested. that’d mean chase would lose about 10k on the 120k mortgage.
So I went through the tedious process which took about a month, and just as we were ready to go chase changed my case handler. So I had to start over with the new person, for reasons that were not provided. So fine, I did.
Month later, THAT person switched off and I got a new case processor to take over, and when they told me I had to start over I literally said “you can fuck yourselves, in walking” and I never spoke to chase about the house again. Couple years later the foreclosure finally went through, and instead of 110k they got… 22k from the sheriffs sale.
My step mom worked at chase in the mortgage dept at the time, and later told me this was SOP for short sales at the time. They were uninterested in actually doing it, just jerking me around until I quit trying.
Motherfuckers.
Yeah, we walked and claimed it on a bankruptcy.
Bleh sorry to hear that.
I didn’t declare bankruptcy, but it fucked up my ability to buy a house in 2017 (and again on 2020), so i had to cash out stock and pay cash for the first one, and get an FHA loan on the second (lol).
The black mark fell off after 7 years so I can buy one now, it was just kind of a pain.
Not stuck anymore but I was for like a month. I bought Pretty Litter cause multiple drag queens I liked told me to do so. That is the worst goddamn litter I have EVER used in my life. The smell was horrendous, the dust was so so bad I actually couldn’t even be in the next room when my partner did the litter because of my allergies, and our house looked like a fucking beach. Fuck those people. (And shame on me for falling for goddamn ads)
Is it for cats?
Yeah it’s marketed as being able to detect urine irregularities in cats so it changes colour with their pee. It also supposedly “locks” in the smell which, to their credit, I couldn’t smell the cat shit, all I could smell was dust.
It’s also made of silicone which, you know, not meant to be eaten so I’m sure that’s great for cats to have in the fur they clean with their mouths.
I really didn’t do my research on this one.
Maybe Linux, too lazy to swap back to windows, a lot of random stuff doesnt work or is super annoying to get working, like a material library addon I use for Blender doesn’t work for linux apparently (sanctus) and makes it so I cant render with any light in the scene so its not just the menu but the materials themselves. I was hoping at least blender would work, already had to stop pirating houdini and I couldnt get the free version to work either.
All games have been fine, but I dont just game anymore, I like making stuff and playing with 3d tools.
At least embergen seems to work, so I might transition to jangafx over houdini, can buy it monthly and I spend way too much time learning houdini (its fun af) when im likely never making money off this hobby. (cant justify 300$ a year or 2500 perpetual rnow, its an insanely fun simulation toy so it honestly might be worth that, even not making money off it) Its just annoying, I’ve spent too much time learning it, my brains crammed with Houdini specific information.
like a material library addon I use for Blender doesn’t work for linux apparently (sanctus) and makes it so I cant render with any light in the scene so its not just the menu but the materials themselves.
I don’t even know why that wouldn’t work. All my blender addons work just fine on Linux
Wonder if I’m missing a dependency, no idea how to check, seems odd that the material itself wouldn’t work on linux
- Dependency hell is self-inflicted
- Dependencies are built into your packaging system (unless you’re using containers). There I’ll be a way to say “what does this need” and “go get it”, but that should have been done during the install of properly-packaged software
I suspect I’m making assumptions about your install, though.
You can try the sanctus demo yourself and see if it works for you on Blender running on Linux. Alt tab easy fog 2 says win/mac and a reviewer had issues running it on linux, i tried another material addon, the materials work but previews in its ui are broken.
I had a few not install, some say that linux isnt supported in reviews and dont work like alt tab easy fog 2, and sanctus are the ones I remember off the top of my head (sanctus menu didn’t work and caused blender to freeze, took me forever to realize it was soemthing I was appending that had a sanctus material causing my crash, didn’t realize til I installed the addon on a fresh install and tried applying it to something getting the same issue)
Chain link (LINK) crypto.
Should have stuck with Dogecoin.
